PROGRAMME AND ABSTRACTS - Università degli Studi di Messina

imagination until the late nineteenth century. Today, we explain away this issue by saying that
early modern Europeans used a ‘narrow Christian concept of religion’ (focusing on belief in
God) and thus failed to see that these nations and tribes merely had a different kind of religion.
I will argue that this is a pseudo-explanation and that the blindness is really ours: we fail to see
how the debate about people without religion was never settled on cognitive grounds. The
contemporary European understanding of the link between religion and human nature is a piece
of cultural superstition.
Tue 15 th , 9.40, Classroom 13
Lietta De Salvo, University of Messina, Italy
Teoderico e la tolleranza religiosa
Through a comparison of Cassiodoro's Variae about the Hebrews (II 27; III 45; IV 33; IV 43;
V 37), the reserch will analyze the behaviors of Theodericus toward the bishops and the
institutions of the Christian church (The 9; The 26; II 18; III 14; III 37; IV 18). The purpouse
of the reserch is to establish if Theodericus was really tolerant about religion.
Pia De Simone, University of Salerno, Italy
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Wed 16 th , 10.00, Classroom 6
Le opere straordinarie e la divinità: il rapporto tra ta daimònia e la theiòtes nel paganesimo
Ney De Souza, PUCSP University, São Paulo, Brazil
The Influence of Religion on the Brazilian Culture
Tue 15 th , 16.40, Classroom Aula Magna
The current profile of religion in Brazil is from an ancient eastern and, in its part, a product
from these two inheritance came from the old branch of Christianity from Latin, French and
Germany. The characteristics framed by the three forms and the new Christianities were born
from the grown of the markets, army, politics, religious and cultural influence of the European
catholic powers in the world, from the second half of XV century long toward Africa and Asia
and going into the next century toward America to change its realities. In this sense of
expansion Portugal and Spain had a high role. This piece of Study presents the results of a
survey that has its main subject in the European religious influence and the common sense
among Indian and African cultures in the frame thought and the current brazilian culture.
Maddalena Del Bianco Cotrozzi, University of Udine, Italy
La storia dell'Ebraismo nella scuola storico-religiosa italiana
Wed 16 th , 17.20, Classroom 4
The aim of this paper is to present the main trends in research on the history of Judaism
according to the tradition of the Italian school of History of Religions and the history of this
discipline in the Italian universities.